If we desire to affirm that the substantive is put in action, we adjectify it by adding to its positive the termination tla; for example atawit, love; adjective affirming action atawit-la, loving.

Dragging stringsful of tasty fish out of the ponds kept the neighborhood kids occupied for about nine weeks, but conservation officials felt it only fair to put the fish back in a less muddy environment.

I looked over the stair-windows, however, and saw the back green, which smells of clipshears and clockers, as of yore.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.